Sheikh Arif Bulbon :
Artist Nasima Khan’s distinct sense of composition is informed by her education and professional practice as an architect. The influence of architecture, the art of design and construction of built forms, is not evident at first in the inhabited, often desert landscapes painted by the artist. But the subtle combination of horizontal and vertical lines she uses to instill a dynamic in her compositions clearly refers to the craft of the architect.
A two-week long solo exhibition of paintings and drawings titled Shifting Sands by Nasima Khan is going on at the Bengal Art Lounge in the city’s Gulshan area now.
Nasima Khan’s minimalist representation takes the viewer to the essence of Bangladeshi nature like light strokes and minimal dashes of colours suffice to evoke the immense power and the infinite vastness of the Bengal delta.
The exhibition, featuring mostly landscape of watercolours, was inaugurated by Professor Shamsul Wares, Professor of the Department of Architecture of the University of Asia Pacific Department of Architecture.
Noted thinker Alimur Rahman Khan, Managing Director of Bengal Art Lounge Luva Nahid Chowdhury and Manager of Bengal Art Lounge Hadrien Diez, among others, were present at the event.
Basically artist Nasima Khan did magic with watercolours in her depictions of the sky during the monsoon season in her current solo exhibition centring on the shoals, locally called chars, of the country.
The exhibition is featuring 69 paintings.
Nasima merges the merciless physical landscape of the chars with monsoon rain that softens the harsh landscape of the chars.
The stark and barren lands in the paintings are transformed and revitalised by the rain even as the audience is transformed by Nasima’s skill.
With an acute sense of observation, the artist portrays rice fields, sandy shores, fishing nets, misty mornings and still water in her paintings.
The exhibition will continue till December 27. n
Artist Nasima Khan’s distinct sense of composition is informed by her education and professional practice as an architect. The influence of architecture, the art of design and construction of built forms, is not evident at first in the inhabited, often desert landscapes painted by the artist. But the subtle combination of horizontal and vertical lines she uses to instill a dynamic in her compositions clearly refers to the craft of the architect.
A two-week long solo exhibition of paintings and drawings titled Shifting Sands by Nasima Khan is going on at the Bengal Art Lounge in the city’s Gulshan area now.
Nasima Khan’s minimalist representation takes the viewer to the essence of Bangladeshi nature like light strokes and minimal dashes of colours suffice to evoke the immense power and the infinite vastness of the Bengal delta.
The exhibition, featuring mostly landscape of watercolours, was inaugurated by Professor Shamsul Wares, Professor of the Department of Architecture of the University of Asia Pacific Department of Architecture.
Noted thinker Alimur Rahman Khan, Managing Director of Bengal Art Lounge Luva Nahid Chowdhury and Manager of Bengal Art Lounge Hadrien Diez, among others, were present at the event.
Basically artist Nasima Khan did magic with watercolours in her depictions of the sky during the monsoon season in her current solo exhibition centring on the shoals, locally called chars, of the country.
The exhibition is featuring 69 paintings.
Nasima merges the merciless physical landscape of the chars with monsoon rain that softens the harsh landscape of the chars.
The stark and barren lands in the paintings are transformed and revitalised by the rain even as the audience is transformed by Nasima’s skill.
With an acute sense of observation, the artist portrays rice fields, sandy shores, fishing nets, misty mornings and still water in her paintings.
The exhibition will continue till December 27. n
